Ironboss

about

Ironboss is a veritable hacksaw of a quartet from the hills of Western Maryland. The band's insistence on jacked up guitar riffs played with hammering, revved up single-mindedness continues to this day. The single-minded purpose, of course, for ringleader Chris Rhoten, is matching on guitar the intensity of tearing up a motocross track without care for life and limb. The band blends a hands-on relationship with streetpunk and hardcore with an equal passion for nasty rock and roll. The results are one of a kind, with Chris' tuneful, but throaty, yowl, and twangy, chickenscratch guitar barbequing over a beefy, quick-tempo'd rhythm section. The band has slugged out hundreds and hundreds of shows in beat-up clubs all over the States and Europe, breaking bones, vans, hearts and equipment along the way, as well as recording six cd's worth of rock to tremendous acclaim in publications such as Metal Hammer, Kerrang, Terrorizer, Classic Rock, and numerous other large publications. Ironboss has released material on labels in the United States, Canada, Australia, UK, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy. With well over a decade of backbreaking mechanical labor at the Carroll County Landfill, and over thirty years of backwoods living, Chris Rhoten walks the walk. In addition to handling vocals and guitar, he is a professional moto-cross racer, and extremely dangerous man, having broken over fifty bones, suffered dozens of concussions, been struck by lightning twice, b